A person with semantic dementia would be expected to show
a. damage of the medial parietal lobe.
b. a difficulty in recalling episodic information.
c. damage of the hippocampus.
d. a difficulty in recalling factual information.
e. deficits in episodic emotional memory.
Answer: d. a difficulty in recalling factual information.
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Considering what you learned in your developmental course, how likely is this? a. He is a likely telling the truth; experimentation is one of the four major reasons that adolescents use substances. b. He is probably lying, most drug abusers do. c. He is not telling the truth; adolescents are either users or not users. d. He is likely self-medicating.
According to Piaget, what do adolescents rely on during the formal operational stage of cognitive development that helps them reason differently than children in the concrete operations stage?
A. an enlarged prefrontal cortex B. genetic abilities C. propositional thought D. trial and error experience from previous years